Valle Maggia
The Valle Maggia , German Maggia Valley , formerly Meiental, Mayenthal, is a valley in the Swiss canton of Ticino .
geography
The valley is traversed by the Maggia river and extends from Locarno on Lake Maggiore about 50 km further north. It arises when the side valleys Valle Bavona from the right and Val Lavizzara from the left join near the village of Cavergno . The valley and the side valleys are in the district of Vallemaggia .
Larger communities in the valley are Lavizzara , Avegno-Gordevio , Maggia and Cevio .
traffic
From 1907 to 1965 the Maggia Valley Railway operated between Locarno and Bignasco in the Valle Maggia. After its closure, the route was partially used to widen the valley road. At that time a road tunnel into the upper Leventina Valley was planned , but it was never realized.
Others
Max Frisch lets the protagonist of his book Man appears in the Holocene undertake a hike from the nearby Valle Onsernone over the Passo della Garina to Aurigeno in the Maggia Valley.
literature
- Thomas Bachmann: Vallemaggia. Hiking in a spectacular Ticino valley . Rotpunktverlag, Zurich 2012, ISBN 978-3-85869-480-5 .
Web links
- Valle Maggia on the ETHorama platform
- Vallemaggia Turismo
- Cultural landscape change in the Maggia valley (PDF; 4.9 MB)
- Valle Maggia on ticinarte.ch
Coordinates: 46 ° 15 ′ 0 ″ N , 8 ° 42 ′ 0 ″ E ; CH1903: six hundred and ninety-seven thousand two hundred and seventy-one / 122844